The vast majority of women support women-only services; research shows many victims would not have accessed support spaces if they had not been restricted to women

The Women’s Resource Centre has calculated that the social value generated by women’s services is five to 11 times greater than the amount of money invested in them

Funding for women’s organisations has been negatively affected by austerity measures, the move away from local and national grants to competitively tendered-for contracts to deliver services, and the short-term nature of many contracts and grants.